Short Biographies of Scholars

Sayyid Abul A'la Al-Mawdudi
Birth place:
He was born in 1903/1320 in Aurangabad (then in Hyderabad, now in the state of Maharashtra, in India) into a traditional Muslim family with a strong religious bent.
Education:
He was primarily home schooled. His formal education, mostly in the tra...

This article is containing among the short biographies of the authors for art books as M.H. Morgan, M.F.Gulen, Mohamed Amin and Hilmi Aydin:
Hilmi Aydin, currently the manager of the Division of Sacred Relics at the Museum, has photographed and presented this absolutely unique collection in a har...

Name & Birth
Sham Al-din Muhammad Ibn Abi Bakr, Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyya. He was born in Syria in 691 A.H/1292 C.E.
Bringing up & Education:
He was brought up in his village under his father's guidance. He studied under his father as well. Later on, he pursued his quest for knowledge at th...

Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi's message of balanced spirituality
​By Mansoor Akbar Kundi
There is only one Maulana in Turkey - Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi, known as one of the greatest mystic poets of Islam. In Turkey, he is known simply as 'Mevlana,' and his followers go by the title of 'Mevlevi.'...

Life of Shaykh 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani
Name:
Abu Muhammad 'Abd al-Qadir bin Musa bin 'Abd Allah al-Jilani
Born:
He was born in Jilan a city of Iraq in 470 AH/1077 CE.
Bringing up & Study:
He was brought up in his noble Syed family under the guidance of his father "Abu Saleh Musa. H...

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Umm Muhammad
She is also known under the pseudonym of Saheeh International , she accepted Islam in 1974 while in Syria following an intensive study of Arabic. In 1981 she moved to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where she continues...

Professor Mohammad Hashim Kamali was born on February 7, 1944, in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. He graduated from the University of Kabul (1965) and the University of London (1972). He is the author of Islamic Commercial Law (2000), a study of the application of Shariah principles to some crucial...

Imam Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyya
Name & Birth:
Shams al-Din Muhammad Ibn Abi Bakr, Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyya. He was born in a small farming village near Damascus, Syria in 691 A.H/.1292 C.E.
Study and His Shuyukh:
He received a comprehensive Islamic education in Madrasah al-Jawziyyah, one...

Name & Birth:
Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Muhammad 'Awwamah (hafizahullah) was born on 1940 (1358) in Aleppo.
Study & Shuyukh:
Before he commenced his studies in the year 1374 AH (1953), he used to attend the lessons of Shaykh Muhammad al-Salqini. From the very beginning he was the student of Shay...

Saykh Sa'id bin Ali al-Qahtani was born in 1372 Hijri in Abha. He was brought up in a village He started reading in Madrasa al-Arin in 1387 Hijri, when he was about 15 years.
He was graduated from jamia Imam Muhammad in 1406 Hijri, Obtained a Master degree in 1412 Hijri and PhD. degree in 1419 Hi...

Professor Muhammad Mustafa Al-Azami, one of the world's premier scholars of Hadith, was born in Mau, India in the early 1930s and received his education successively at Dar al-Ulum Deoband, India (1952), al-Azhar University, Cairo (M.A., 1955), and University of Cambridge (Ph.D., 1966).
He is Pr...

Brief Biographies of the Four Imams
Imam Malik - the first of the four great imams and founder of the Maliki school of thought. He lived his whole life in Madina where much of the Quran was revealed and most of the legal practices of Islam established. He spent his life studying, recording and cl...

Hamza Yusuf
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf was born in Washington State and raised in Northern California. In 1977, he became Muslim and subsequently traveled to the Muslim world and studied for ten years in the U. A. E., Saudi Arabia, as well as North and West Africa. He received teaching licenses in variou...

Shaykh Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyya
Name & Birth:
Shams Al-din Muhammad Ibn Abi Bakr, Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyya. He was born in a small farming village near Damascus, Syria in 691 A.H/.1292 C.E.
Education:
He studied under his father who was the local attendant (qayyim) of al-Jawziyya schoo...

Allama Khalid Mahmud is an Islamic scholar. He is one of the senior scholars of Dar ul Uloom Ta'leemud - Din Dabhel. He served as justice of Supreme court of Pakistan (Shariat Appellate Bench). He is also director of the Islamic Academy of Manchester UK.

Maulana Zakariyya Kandhlawi
He was born in the village of Kandhla (in Uttar Pradesh, India) on Ramadan 1315 AH (1898 CE).
His full name was Muhammad Zakariyya ibn Muhammad Yahya ibn Muhammad Isma‘il, and his lineage continues all the way back to Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him), the g...

Martin Lings (1909-2005) was a leading member of the “Traditionalist” or “Perennialist” school and an acclaimed author, editor, translator, scholar, Arabist, and poet whose work centers on the relationship between God and man through religious doctrine, scripture, symbolism, literature, and art. He ...

Dr. Khalid Mahmood Shaikh had been Director Institute of Islamic studies, University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir for over a decade. Prior to that he had worked as Director Training and Research at International Islamic University, Islamabad.
He obtained his M.A. English and M.A. Arabic degrees fro...

Khurram Murad (1932-1996) a greater scholar of our times occupies a place of distinction in the intellectual firmament of contemporary Islam. A thinker and a prolific writer, he has been one of the architects of current Islamic resurgence. While his da'wah activities began in Pakistan, he has been i...

Imam Tirmidhi (209 - 279 H)
Imam Tirmidhi was born in the year 209 A.H. during the reign of the Abbasid Khalifa Ma'mun al-Rashid. The Abbasid Caliphate, despite its brilliant contributions to Islam, brought along with it many thorny problems. Greek Philosophy had a free flow into the Islamic worl...

Imam Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi was an Andalusian Sunni Islamic legal scholar following the Maliki madhab. He died 1388 (8th Shabaan 790 H) in Granada. Imam Shatibi's full name was "Ibrahim bin Mosa bin Muhammad al-Shatibi al-Gharnati". His family's descent was from the Banu Lakhm. His Kuniyat was "Abu Is...

Imam ash-Shawkani was from the Zaydi school of law originally, and called for a return to the textual sources of the Quran and hadith.
He viewed himself as a mujtahid, or authority to whom others in the Muslim community had to defer in details of religious law.
Of his work issuing fatwas, he...